Art Berke, a lifelong White Sox fan, has worked at the highest levels of the sports industry with Major League Baseball, ABC Television and Sports Illustrated. He grew up in Northwest Indiana, in the shadow of old Comiskey Park, and proudly proclaims 2005 as the best year of his life. Art offers his glass half-full opinions and observations as he lives and dies with the Sox.

My Top 10 White Sox Moments of the Decade

White Sox communications guru Scott Reifert has asked Sox fans, through Twitter, to weigh in on their Top 10 moments of the decade. Here are my my picks. I really had no other choice but to list seven of the 10 from the 2005 postseason.

10. Dewayne Wise‘s spectacular catch to save Mark Buehrle‘s perfect game in July of 2009.

9. Buehrle’s perfect game.

8. Jim Thome‘s home run and John Danks‘ gem against the Twins in Game 163 to help the Sox clinch the 2008 A.L. Central crown.

7. El Duque Hernandez retired the side with the bases loaded and no outs in the sixth and pitched three scoreless innings in all in the deciding game of the ’05 American League Division Series.

6. Joe Crede’s two-out ninth inning double to left field in Game 2 of the ’05 American League Championship Series that scored Pablo Ozuna to give the Sox a 2-1 victory to tie the Series at one. It capped off a miracle inning that started with A.J. Pierzynski‘s now-legendary sprint to first base on a dropped third strike.

5. Paul Konerko‘s thrilling grand slam in Game 2 of the ’05 Series to put the Sox ahead 6-4.

4. Scott Podsednik‘s unimaginable game-winning homer off of Brad Lidge in the ninth inning of Game 2 to put the Sox up 2-0 in the ’05 Series.

3. Geoff Blum‘s line drive homer in the 14th inning of the longest Series game ever played broke a 5-5 tie. The Sox scored another and took a commanding 3-0 game lead in the ’05 Series.

2. Jermaine Dye, the eventual ’05 Series MVP, singled up the middle to score Willie Harris with the lone run in Game 4 of the Fall Classic.

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I root for the other Sox but that truly was a great moment when the ChiSox won for the first time since 1919. I love Ozzie Guillen so I was cheering along with you.
Congrats on being the featured blog.

The walk off home run by Joe Crede in late September 2005 vs the Indians that kept distance between the Sox and the Indians when it seemed like the Indians won EVERY day in September was the biggest home run (regular season) in Sox history.

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